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A promotional image for “The Age of Content,” a 2023–24 dance performance by the French companies (LA)HORDE and the Ballet national de Marseille. Maria Baranova-Suzuki Editor’s note: This story is an edition of Link Rot, a column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. The stage is simply set: a …

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Members of the Guggenheim union rally outside the museum on March 4. Tessa Solomon for ARTnews On Wednesday in Manhattan, VIP guests trickled into the Guggenheim Museum to celebrate its buzzy Carol Bove show, while outside, its unionized staff—conservators, archivists, educators, front-facing staff, and others—rallied for a second contract that the group hopes will be more robust.   The …

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Cecily Brown, The Serpentine Picture, 2024. Genevieve Hanson/©2026 Cecily Brown All roads lead to Italy this season, and not only because the Venice Biennale, the greatest art exhibition of them all, opens there in May. Over in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is staging a Raphael retrospective—the first ever devoted to the Renaissance …

74 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See This Spring Read More »

Vancouver Art Gallery Getty Images. The Vancouver Art Gallery announced this week that it has received a gift of more than 800 works from American photographer Stephen Shore’s series “Uncommon Places.” The donation comes from the Vancouver-based Chan family, which has long supported the museum. Taken on road trips across North America between 1973 and …

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The late Isaiah Zagar. Courtesy of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines GAINING PACE. New York-based conceptual artist Anicka Yi has joined Pace, with the gallery representing her in partnership with Gladstone Gallery, 47 Canal, and Esther Schipper. Yi spoke to ARTnews about why artists must go beyond simply …

Career-Making Turner Watercolor Goes On View, Artist Anicka Yi Joins Pace, Mosaic Artist Isaiah Zagar Dies: Morning Links for March 4, 2026 Read More »

Work by Melissa Leandro at the DePaul Art Museum. Courtesy DePaul Art Museum The DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, founded in 1985 and part of DePaul University, will close at the end of its current fiscal year, on June 30. The school, which faces considerable financial challenges, announced the closure in an announcement to the …

Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum to Close After 40 Years Read More »

Giancarlo Politi and Helena Kontova. Courtesy Catherine Shanley. Photo credit: Paul Shanley Giancarlo Politi, publisher, art critic, and founder of Flash Art, one of the most  influential contemporary art magazines to emerge from Europe’s postwar era, died on February 24. He was 89. News of his death was first reported in the Italian-language press.  Founded …

Giancarlo Politi, Founder of Pioneering ‘Flash Art’ Magazine, Has Died at 89 Read More »

Rendering of “Van Gogh Alive!” at the Lume Indianapolis. Courtesy Grande Experiences In 2021, the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields turned the museum’s fourth floor contemporary art galleries into an exhibition space for high-tech digital art called the Lume. Over the past five years, the controversial initiative featured immersive, crowd-pleasing exhibitions like “Van Gogh …

The Lume, the Controversial Immersive Digital Art Gallery at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Closed at the End of February Read More »

Rendering of Pace Prints’ new location in Hollywood. Pace Prints Pace Prints is heading to Hollywood. The New York–based print publisher and workshop has taken a space in Los Angeles and plans to open a production facility this fall with a small accompanying gallery, expanding its footprint at a moment when the L.A. art scene …

Pace Prints Heads West With a Hollywood Hub, a Chuck Close Deep Dive, and a Case for Why Prints Matter Now Read More »

Jean Widmer. Photo S. Pierron Jean Widmer, a French-Swiss graphic designer whose minimalist aesthetic manifested a striking logo for Centre Pompidou upon its opening in 1977, died on February 2 at the age of 96. His death was announced by Centre Pompidou, which said, “Since that day in 1977, Widmer’s logo has travelled the world, …

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